It reminds me that no embrace will ever feel the same again, because no one will ever be like her again, because she’s gone. She’s gone, and crying feels so useless, so stupid, but it’s...

Why is your heart racing Tris?

I don’t know how long i tis before we get cold again, and huddle under the blanket together.-It’s getting more difficult to be wise. – He says,laughing into my ear.I smile at him. – I...

You could just do the work, you know,’ I say. ‘You could make better decisions, make a better life.”Yeah, I could,’ he says. ‘But I won’t. We both know that.’I do know that. I know...

It is impossible to erase my choices.

If they told us what to believe, and we didn’t come to it on our own, is it still true?

Panic and terror aren’t the only kinds of fear. There are deeper kinds, more terrible kinds. Apprehension and heavy, heavy dread.

Sometimes I forget that I can hurt you. That you are capable of being hurt

Now she looks pale and small, but her eyes make me think of wide- open skies that I have never actually seen, only dreamed of.

I’m going to ask you not to make any decisions until we’ve talkedabout it.

I have something I need to tell you,” he says. I run my fingers along the tendons in his hands and look back at him. “I might be in love with you.” He smiles a...

I’ll have to keep looking for more of them, more brief moments of freedom in a world that refuses to allow it.

I think that’s how it’ssupposed to be.

‘Yeah, well,’ I say, ‘I left Abnegation because I wasn’t selfless enough, no matter how hard I tried to be.’ ‘That’s not entirely true.’ He smiles at me. ‘That girl who let someone throw knives...

You know, there’s a word for big, strong men who attack women, and it’s coward.

I suppose a fire that burns that bright is not meant to last.

I feel like myself, strong and weak at once – allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.

It happened. It was awful. You aren’t perfect. That’s all there is. Don’t confuse your grief with guilt.”We stay in the silence and the loneliness of the otherwise empty dormitory for a few more minutes,...

Chaos and destruction do tend to take away a person’s dating possibilities.

The person you became with her is worth being.

He wraps his arms around me and holds me tight for a few seconds. Hisbreaths tickle my ear, and I close my eyes, letting myself finally relax. Hesmells like wind and sweat and soap, like...

We’ve all started to put down the virtues of the other factions in the process of bolstering our own. I don’t want to do that. I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and...

I understand why she did all those things, but that doesn’t mean we aren’t still broken.

She must love me, to worry about me. She must still be capable of love.

I asked you not to do this. You made your decision. These are the repercussions.

When her body first hit the net, all I registered was a gray blur. I pulled her across it and her hand was small, but warm, and then she stood before me, short and thin...

I’m not abnegation, I’m not dauntless, I am Divergent

I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them. I am terrified and I don’t even know of what, because I have lost everything already.

It’s strange to see people you don’t know well in the morning, with sleepy eyes and pillow creases in their cheeks

I don’t need to relive my fears anymore. All I need to do now is try to overcome them.

People are supossed to aspire to become their fathers, not shudder at the thought.